May Quotes - Page 95

You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.

I may not be able to outsmart too many people, but I can outwork 'em.

I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.

You will perceive that economy, scientifically speaking, is a very contracted science; it is in fact a sort of vague mathematics which calculates the causes and effects of man's industry, and shows how it may be best applied.

Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.

O God, animate us to cheerfulness! May we have a joyful sense of our blessings, learn to look on the bright circumstances of our lot, and maintain a perpetual contentedness

Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.

Among the fundamental likeness between the Revolutionary Republicans and the Anarchists is the recognition that the little must precede the great; that the local must be the basis of the general; that there can be a free federation only when there are free communities to federate; that the spirit of the latter is carried into the councils of the former, and a local tyranny may thus become an instrument for general enslavement.

The thing is, however strange it may seem, that the interests of the United States and of the Russian Federation do coincide sometimes.

All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence.

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.

The main reason why we look constantly to the Gita is that, whenever we need help, we may get it from the Gita. And, indeed, we always do get it.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.

Some of you may have met mathematicians and wondered how they got that way.

Pardon, we beseech Thee, all our offences of omission and commission; and grant that in all our thoughts, words, and actions, we may conform to Thy known will manifested in our consciences, and in the revelations of Jesus Christ our Saviour.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.

If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse - a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.

Christ is born to us today, in order that he may appear to the whole world through us.

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

Let nothing disturb you, / Nothing dismay you; / All things are passing: / God never changes.

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.